Great white shark reported at 'Jaws' filming site

[Dark Knight]

The island where "Jaws" was filmed had a real-life shark scare Thursday, when an unconfirmed sighting of a great white forced the closure of two beaches.

South Beach on Martha's Vineyard was closed for a short time, and swimmers were kept out of the water at State Beach in Edgartown, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation said.

A plane was dispatched to try to confirm the sighting, but no shark was spotted, said Lisa Capone, a spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_fe_st/odd_jaws_sighting

 

[kline]

Well...their just gonna need a bigger boat.

 

[Taximom]

I heard this was a hoax by some guy there. No link, but that's what I heard on tv. What a jerk ruining vacation time for all those people!

 

[vibec]

I read the same hoax story this morning. Ill try to find the link.

 

[vibec]

Why do people do things like this?

A 60-year-old Boston man is facing a charge of disturbing the peace for allegedly concocting a story about a shark sighting off a Martha's Vineyard beach Thursday morning.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/07/one_vineyard_sh.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3

 

[angelwngs]

Humm.... Is anyone else seeing a possible sequel to the movie? "Revenge of Jaws, The Offspring"... :crazy:

 

[philamena]

da daaa da daaa da da da da da da.

 

[Malapoo]

Humm.... Is anyone else seeing a possible sequel to the movie? "Revenge of Jaws, The Offspring"... :crazy:

Actually there were at least two sequels - both HORRIBLE.

 

[Dark Knight]

Why do people do things like this?

A 60-year-old Boston man is facing a charge of disturbing the peace for allegedly concocting a story about a shark sighting off a Martha's Vineyard beach Thursday morning.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/07/one_vineyard_sh.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3

From the article:

"The island's South Beach had closed earlier in the morning, after lifeguards reported possibly spotting a great white."

So maybe there was one after all. The lifeguards reported the shark before the man's hoax.

 

[Dark Knight]

Yep, it was two seperate beaches and two seperate sightings, just the same general area. One was a hoax, they don't know about the first one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_us/odd_jaws_sighting